Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A)(NYSE:BRK.B) discusses the political deadlock in Washington, D.C., and compares the folly of using the debt ceiling as a weapon to the historical use of nuclear bombs. His partner Charlie Munger calls this "understated." From Fortune:

A government which spends money it doesn't have will eventually devalue it's currency and/or raise taxes on future citizens who will be forced to pay the price for governmental services they most likely didn't receive. Either alternative is a form of "taxation without representation."

Mi, you are outside your "circle of competence". First, taxes are the cost of civilization. Second, learn the social science of macroeconomics from the moral economist, Joseph Stiglitz, by reading "The Price of Inequality". Did you know that macroeconomics can be counterintuitive?

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